Object Details
- Description
- Landscape sketch with high level of finish showing view of a cultivated valley in the Red Hills near Kingston, Jamaica. In foreground, mixed foliage frames the view of a valley with several distinct farms or pastures. In the middle distance, the reddish-brown ridges of the Red Hills constitute the primary focus. In the background, taller mountains are shrouded beneath dark storm clouds, which begin to precipitate at left.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- May–September 1865
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil paint and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 23.4 × 36.5 cm (9 3/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
